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January 7, 2016
10:07 p.m.

January 7, 2016
10:07 p.m.

Any card associated with BW Eldrazi is climbing steadily. Stoneforge spiked, but that's old news. Recent news, Grove of the Burnwillows doubled in price in less than a few days, so that really sucks for those who want to play Tron. HOWEVER, I honestly think Karplusan Forest is a fine replacement.

January 7, 2016
11:09 p.m.

January 8, 2016
12:01 a.m.

Really is modern season coming. If one looks at the EchoMTG section for MM2, you can see that the top 12 most expensive cards are only increasing in price, and there are very few cards going down and the ones that are are going down by 1%. Similar results can be found at MMA.

EDIT: That is actually only the 9th edition for Karplusan Forest, which is weird, as a few articles from MTGstocks also claim that white bordered cards are being bought out but not any of the other editions, even though White bordered cards are viewed as being inferior. The 10th edition has just been seeing a slow and steady increase in price over the past 2 years.

January 8, 2016
10:03 a.m.

Okay, so, Scapeshift got a bit of a shot in the arm with BfZ. It got Cinder Glade and Bring to Light. I feel pretty confidant in saying that these two things should not contribute to spike of this magnitude, thus I am assuming the current price level is not sustainable.

January 8, 2016
11:51 a.m.

Eureka is losing any hype it had since the DTT ban and is now sitting at $147, as opposed to the $200 that it had been since the ban spike. Serra's Sanctum is also gaining some speed up $10 to $50 since last week.

January 8, 2016
12:26 p.m.

Christ. Spellskite is a $40 SIDEBOARD CARD. Gaddock Teeg was bad enough but now this? What happenend to the sideboard being the most budget section of the deck ... now it is filled with nothing but cards over $20.

January 8, 2016
1:07 p.m.

Inquisition of Kozilek has spiked from ~$13 last week to like ~$40. Both the ROE and the Modern Event Deck printings. I'm assuming this might also be because of the Bx eldrazi decks. Prices from TCGplayer

January 8, 2016
1:09 p.m.

January 8, 2016
1:28 p.m.

It looks like the people who do these buy-outs know absolutely nothing about modern deck-building. They just look at a deck that is recently new and buy out all the cards for it regardless of any sort of deck-building knowledge.

January 8, 2016
1:30 p.m.

January 8, 2016
1:36 p.m.

Holy Shit on Inquisition....it's unsustainable but I'm sure it won't fall under $25. It's played way to much, in so many different decks. Well, glad I have my playset. So anyways, what else in the Top 8 will be next? I'm calling Shocklands.

January 8, 2016
2:07 p.m.

January 8, 2016
2:07 p.m.

I like this idea of the thread, although it seems like that's all the economics thread ever was in the first place. I'm starting to get worried for the state of Modern. If it gets too expensive to get into, people will never make the jump from standard. I wouldn't want to be holding the bag if normal economics don't help balance out the market manipulation. Also I encourage everyone to crack packs. More packs opened = more cards in the market. But more importantly, don't buy cards at these ridiculously-high prices. DON'T GIVE THEM THE SATISFACTION!!!

January 8, 2016
3:49 p.m.

GeminiSpartanX The one thing that doesn't bother me about Modern is they can reprint anything they want, whenever they want. It's not going to kill the format. This happens every year anyways. Last year Snapcaster Mage was nearing $80. Now look at him. It's modern season, people are buying cards, the end.

January 8, 2016
4:12 p.m.

January 8, 2016
5:27 p.m.

But even compared to previous years, there hasn't been this many buyouts at such an early time of the year. It's also kind of silly that people are buying out playable uncommons and commons that have multiple reprints. If MM15 is an indicator of future 'reprints', then Modern will increase in price faster than Wizards can control it with reprints.

January 8, 2016
6:46 p.m.

Oh, I'm already deep into the modern(rabbit) hole Femme_Fatale. I have my IoKs and many other Modern staples already. It's just that my local meta isn't so much into Modern, but I want them to be. The standard guys at my LGS would like to get into Modern, but price was an issue for them even before the latest round of spikes. I really want more of a Modern presence in my area, but I'm upset that players can't get into it due to speculators.

January 8, 2016
8:29 p.m.

GeminiSpartanX I'm not convinced this is speculators. I honestly think it's just people buying cards preparing for 1.) Pro Tour and 2.) Some of the new, spicy decks. This happens every winter; cards will settle in late Summer, early Fall, and the cycle will start again. Standard is a black hole of money and is only worth using to buy single of cards playable in Modern, EDH or Legacy lol

January 8, 2016
8:34 p.m.

January 8, 2016
8:48 p.m.

I personally don't think that one new deck would cause widely played uncommon to spike $10. I can see the reason behind Relic of Progenitus and the Eldrazi lands, but IoK has been a solid card in modern for a while, and I have trouble believing that 1 new deck is responsible for so many new players to enter the format. Players who've been playing modern for a while most likely had those beforehand, so a massive buyout doesn't make much sense to me.

But in all honesty, I'm just ranting. I really just want more local players in my area to get into Modern, but they can't due to cost.

January 8, 2016
8:51 p.m.

January 8, 2016
8:54 p.m.

IoK is a widely played uncommon yes, but I was saying that people are buying a lot of them because its in the overhyped Bx Eldrazi deck. Its definitely grown too much and too fast for that to be the only reason. It may be that it wasn't printed in OGW but, idk how many people were expecting it to be. Standard is already too powerful, and adding more power cards won't change that.

January 8, 2016
10:09 p.m.

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